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Falling Chinese Infrastructure
Falling Chinese Infrastructure
Yao Ming and earthquake survivor and hero Lin Hao, 9 Hugh Hewitt’s criticism of this comment by Sen. Obama is on the mark: Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the [...]
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Hugh Hewitt: Which Obama Gaffe To Cover? Obama's Anti-Exceptionalism: "Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now."
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... building binge ignores how those structures were assembled, the source and conditions of the labor, the lack of pollution controls in Beijing and throughout China, the many complaints that Chinese infrastructure outside the Olympics zone remains shoddy, the recent record of Chinese manufacturing scandals, including the heparin fiasco which killed many Americans, and of course the catastrophe brought about by Chinese building standards in the region rocked by the recent earthquake. ( The New Nixon's John Taylor links to an extensive summary of the enormous shortfalls in Chinese ...

Hugh Hewitt: Which Obama Gaffe To Cover? Obama's Anti-Exceptionalism: "Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now."
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... building binge ignores how those structures were assembled, the source and conditions of the labor, the lack of pollution controls in Beijing and throughout China, the many complaints that Chinese infrastructure outside the Olympics zone remains shoddy, the recent record of Chinese manufacturing scandals, including the heparin fiasco which killed many Americans, and of course the catastrophe brought about by Chinese building standards in the region rocked by the recent earthquake. ( The New Nixon's John Taylor links to an extensive summary of the enormous shortfalls in Chinese ...

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